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Data collection for everyone! Glad to know I'm able to contribute. Are we growing the economy? Job creation? Here is another slice of tax dollars at work. DOE and Infoveillance...http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Public%20Preferences%20Related%20to%20Consent%20Based%20Siting%2002-01-13.pdfpg.34

@Anon at 9:12: Generally, I don't have a problem with collection and analysis of anonymous(!) data. It could be used for good things.

For instance, the report says in section 4 (only portion I read so far) on pdf page 34/document page 23: "...When the public is highly attentive to an issue, policymakers tend to give high priority to those issues, and policy change becomes more likely."So, if data-mining reveals public concern about nuclear energy and this would then result in a policy shift from nuclear to alternative energy, for example, I would see that as data being used with good intentions and possibly for good results.

However, section 4 of the report on the public's "nuclear awareness," if you will, ends with this sentence: ... infoveillance and the associated analyses can provide feedback on the nature and breadth of public concerns in ways that can assist in the design and implementation of consent-based facility siting programs.In combination with the geographic breakdown of public attention, I read that to mean, "We can figure out where people are likely to make the least fuzz over a nuclear (waste storage) site and put it there with less opposition."So much for good intentions and using data-mining for the common good, however anonymous it might be.*mscharisma*

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